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Amazon Echo Review: Talking Helper Alexa Is No Match for Siri. The Virtual Assistant Plays DJ for Your Music, But Gets Lost on Other Basic Requests. Meet Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated virtual assistant who lives in the $200 Echo smart speaker. Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler puts her in the interview chair to find out what she can do.
The Echo is a round black cylinder with an audio system inside. It is always connected to the cloud via wi-fi giving it a vast online resource to tap. The Echo interacts with you by voice, and answers to the name Alexa. If you don't like the name you can call it Amazon, but talking to Amazon in your home is creepy. Amazon Echo: Ringmaster of the home automation IoT circus.